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Magazine Article
Earth's deadly future
2007
Overview
\"The first things to go will be Earth's glaciers and polar ice caps. Warming surface temperatures will turn ice to water, leading to a slow but steady rise in sea levels. But it doesn't stop there. Eventually, temperatures will rise high enough for seawater to boil away, leaving Earth bereft of this vital substance...Ask most people familiar with astronomy when to expect this coming apocalypse, and you'll hear answers of around 5 billion years--once the Sun swells into a red giant. But the end is nearer than that.\" (Astronomy) This article outlines how changes to the structure of the Sun over the next several billion years are expected to increase its intensity and make Earth uninhabitable for all life.
